Grant Highlights
Education
EPPC offers more than 130 academic programs and 350 personal enrichment and continuing education courses at five campuses in El Paso County. This grant supports the planning and initial implementation of a strategy to increase degree completion by military personnel, veterans and their dependents in partnership with the University of Texas at El Paso and other four-year institutions.
Through research, public policy, and programs, Excelencia seeks to improve postsecondary access and success for Latino students. The nonprofit is using this two-year grant to expand the SEMILLAS: Growing What Works initiative to five select institutions in five different states that will refine, assess, and replicate effective practices for accelerating Latino college attainment.
Excelsior College is a leader in online and distance learning, and assists adult learners in reaching their education goals by providing efficient, affordable access to higher education through multiple avenues to degree completion. This two-year grant creates an open-source, interactive, multimedia Online Writing Lab for community college students needing developmental writing training.
The national financing and advisory institution strengthens the business infrastructure of child care and early education through strategic investments in care providers’ facilities and operations across 10 states. The organization is using this grant to develop a three-year strategic and financial plan to support its programs and ensure its financial sustainability.
Founded in 1891, the college has maintained its historical commitment to educating Native American students and serving as a community resource in Colorado’s Four Corners area. This challenge grant helps to fund the renovation and expansion of the College Union, providing a LEED-rated facility for campus and community educational services and events.
The independent nonprofit organization, located on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, is a community of academic leaders and scholars who explore new thinking and ideas that affect the future of higher education. This four-year grant enables forum members to study innovative ways of using learning media and technologies to improve academic productivity.
The independent organization, located on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus, is a community of academic leaders and scholars who explore new thinking and ideas that affect the future of higher education. This four-year grant enables forum members to study innovative ways of using learning media and technologies to improve academic productivity.
The foundation serves California’s 110 community colleges, providing resource development and advancement, program and grant management, systemwide purchasing, financial services, information-technology, and career-training support. This planning grant is being used to identify opportunities for cost savings and resource development to help the California community-college system withstand current financial challenges and prepare for growth.
FCCC serves California’s 112 community colleges, providing resource development and advancement, program and grant management, systemwide purchasing, financial services, information technology and career-training support. This two-year grant underwrites the development of a statewide student-awareness campaign and online resource center to help more community college students complete their degrees.
The foundation was established in 2009 to provide financial support for the seven-college Maine Community College System and to reinforce the need to raise Maine’s college-achievement level. This three-year grant enables Eastern Maine Community College to join the Achieving the Dream initiative and also funds a new initiative, Accelerate ME, offering support and services to students completing their degrees.